[393] _Notes on the Ethnology_, etc., p. 677. It may here be remarked that the unfriendliness of which travellers often complain appears mainly inspired by the Buddhist theocracy, who rule the land and are jealous of all "interlopers." [394] _Ibid._ p. 678. [395] With it may be compared the Chinese province of _Kan-su_, so named from its two chief towns _Kan_-chau and _Su_-chau (Yule's _Marco Polo_, I. p. 222). [396] "Buddhist Turks," says Sir H. H. Howorth (_Geogr. Journ._ 1887, p. 230). [397] E. Delmar Morgan, _Geogr. Journ._ 1887, p. 226. [398] "Whatever may have been the origin of polyandry, there can be no doubt that poverty, a desire to keep down population, and to keep property undivided in families, supply sufficient reason to justify its continuance. The same motives explain its existence among the lower castes of Malabar, among the Jat (Sikhs) of the Panjab, among the Todas, and probably in most other countries in which this custom prevails" (Rockhill, p. 726). [399] T. Rice Holmes, _Ancient Britain_, 1907, pp. 110 and 465-6. [400] At least no reference is made to the Bonbo practice in his almost exhaustive monograph on _The Swastika_, Washington, 1896. The reversed form, however, mentioned by Max Mueller and Burnouf, is figured at p. 767 and elsewhere. [401] Sarat Chandra Das, _Journ. As. Soc. Bengal_, 1881-2. [402] This point, so important in the history of linguistic evolution, has I think been fairly established by T. de Lacouperie in a series of papers in the _Oriental and Babylonian Record_, 1888-90. See G. A. Grierson's _Linguistic Survey of India_, III. Tibeto-Burman Family, 1906, by Sten Konow. [403] _Ladak_, London, 1854. [404] G. B. Mainwaring, _A Grammar of the Rong (Lepcha) Language_, etc., Calcutta, 1876, pp. 128-9. [405] _Outline Grammar of the Angami-Naga Language_, Calcutta, 1887, pp. 4, 5. For an indication of the astonishing number of distinct languages in the whole of this region see Gertrude M. Godden's paper "On the Naga and other Frontier Tribes of North-East India," in _Journ. Anthr. Inst._ 1897, p. 165. Under the heading Tibeto-Burman Languages Sten Konow recognises _Tibetan_, _Himalayan_, _North Assam_, _Bodo_, _Naga_, _Kuki-Chin_, _Meitei_ and _Kachin_. The Naga group comprises dialects of very different kinds; some approach Tibetan and the North Assam group, others lead over to the Bodo, others connect with Tibeto-Burman. Meitei lies midway between Kuki-Chin and Kachin, and these merge finally in Burmese. Grierson's _Linguistic Survey of India_, Vol. III. 1903-6.